DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — A magistrate court in Tanzania on Tuesday ordered that an opposition leader who was charged with treason last month be brought to court in person next month after he went on ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police officers heavily patrolled mostly empty streets in major Tanzanian cities following calls for protests over the ruling party’s disputed election victory that the ...

Prominent Tanzanian politician Tundu Lissu has been elected chairman of the main opposition party Chadema, ousting long-running leader Freeman Mbowe in an intense race. Lissu campaigned for changes in ...

Multiple death threats, arrests by security officers brandishing pistols, and a late-night race to the airport with a diplomatic escort – opposition leader Tundu Lissu’s experience of Tanzania’s ...

Tanzania opposition leader Tundu Lissu has returned to the country from self-imposed exile in Belgium, where he had lived since surviving an assassination attempt in 2017 when he was shot 16 times.

European and allied missions released a joint statement urging President Samia Suluhu’s administration to release the bodies ...

The European Parliament has taken an unprecedented and unanimous step against Tanzania following the country’s October 2025 elections. In a decisive vote of 539–0, with 27 abstentions, Members of the ...

Tanzania's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu (C) gestures as he arrives at the magistrate's court in Dar es Salaam on April 10, 2025. Tanzania's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu was charged with ...